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girvolast Saturday at 10:32 AM2 repliesview on HN

The article shows mac, it's not just ClearType...

PenTile for example (as another commenter pointed out) was woeful with text, and made things look fuzzy.

I'm not a fan of ClearType, but even on Linux OLED text rendering just isn't as good in my experience (at normal desktop monitor DPI)

Perhaps its down to the algorithms most OSes use instead of just ClearType, but why hasn't it been solved by this point even outside Windows?


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kllrnohjlast Saturday at 9:37 PM

iPhones all use PenTile and nobody complains about fuzzy text on them. Early generations of pentile weren't that great, but modern ones look fantastic at basically everything. See also everyone considers the iPad Pro to have probably the best display available at any price point - and it's not an RGB strip, either.

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PunchyHamsterlast Saturday at 2:33 PM

I dunno, my phone's oled (oneplus 5T) looks perfectly fine even with small fonts...